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Dear Jorge and list,

 

I recently saw a PBS special and was reminded that the revolutionary war

went on for several years after the Declaration of Independence/etc. was

signed. It seemed to indicate that the new nation was only

confirmed/recognized after Corwalis surrendered at Yorktown. If Washington

had lost/surrendered England/loyalists would have re-confirmed " ownership "

and there would be no new nation. Has anyone looked at date of this

surrender? I would but my software won't go back that far. John

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Combat at the Battle of Yorktown, Virginia ceased on Wednesday, October 17, 1781, at the time of a total solar eclipse by the new moon @ 03:33 Libra, 1st House [3:49 a.m. LMT, Yorktown]. Agreed upon terms and conditions of surrender took effect on Friday afternoon, October 19, 1781 @ 2:45 p.m LMT. The surrender of General Lord Cornwallis, with so large a portion of the British army in America, has been recognized as the instrumentally pivotal event which eventually "secured" the sovereign Independence of the United States of America, which nation was "established" on the afternoon of July 2, 1776. Moved by British governmental power, the strong arm of military oppression was paralyzed in America by the defeat at Yorktown; and from the hour when intelligence of the event's outcome reached London, it appeared to many that the king and his minsters thenceforth abandoned all hopes of subduing the rebellion and preserving the prior

integrity of the kingdom. The blow of disseverance had fallen; war could no longer subserve a useful purpose; humanity and sound policy counseled peace. Great was the exultation and joy of the Americans as the intelligence went from town to town throughout the confederation states. Lieutenant-colonel Tilghman, one of Washington’s aids-de-camp, rode express to Philadelphia on the evening of October 19th to carry the dispatches of the General Washington announcing the joyful tidings to Congress. Four months later, on February 27, 1782 [a Wednesday, under a full moon] Great Britain's Parliament at Westminster voted to stop the war. This event marked the "de-facto" peace and the formal recognition of the sovereignty of the confederated USA by the Kingdom of Great Britain. The treaties signed in France on September 3, 1783: at Paris [in the morning]; at Versailles [in the afternoon] made the "de-facto" recognition by Great Britain then and

forever "de-jure". And so it came to pass with the 1st degree of Taurus bearing witness: A war of liberation that began on April 19, 1775 as Jupiter transited the Ascendant @ 00:58 Taurus led to the birth of a nation on July 2, 1776, whose confederate government was born noontime on March 01, 1781, with its Luna @ 00:58 Taurus. The following is an abstract of the Articles of Capitulation: I. The garrisons at York and Gloucester to surrender themselves prisoners of war; the land troops to remain prisoners to the United States; the naval forces to the naval army of the French king. II. The artillery, munitions, stores, & c., to be delivered to proper officers appointed to receive them. III. The two redoubts captured on the sixteenth to be surrendered, one to the Americans, the other to the French troops. IV. The

garrison at York to march out at two o’clock [1:45 p.m. LMT], with shouldered arms, colors cased, * and drums beating; there to lay down their arms and return to their encampment: The works on the Gloucester side to be delivered to the Americans and French; V. The garrison to lay down their arms at three o’clock [2:45 p.m. LMT]. VI. The officers to retain their side-arms, papers, and private property. Also, the property of Loyalists found in the garrison to be retained. VII. The soldiers to be kept in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, and to be subsisted by the Americans. British, Anspach, and Hessian officers allowed to be quartered near them, and supply them with clothing and necessities. VIII. The officers allowed to go on parole to Europe, or to any part of the American confederacy; proper vessels to be granted by Count De Grasse to

convey them, under flags of truce, to New York, within ten days, if they choose. Passports to be granted to those who go by land. IX. Officers allowed to keep soldiers as servants, and servants, not soldiers, not to be considered prisoners. VIII. The Bonetta to be under the entire control of Cornwallis, to go to New York with dispatches, and then to be delivered to Count De Grasse. X. Traders not considered close prisoners of war but on parole, and allowed three months to dispose of their property, or remove it. XI. Loyalists not to be punished on account of having joined the British army. Considering this matter to be of a civil character, Washington would not assent to the article. XII. Proper hospitals to be furnished for the sick and wounded, they to be attended by the British surgeons. XIII. Wagons to be

furnished, if possible, for carrying the baggage of officers attending the soldiers, and of the hospital surgeons when traveling on account of the sick. XIV. The shipping and boats in the two harbors, with all their appendages, arms, and stores, to be delivered up, unimpaired, after the private property was unloaded. [The original document was kept in the Archives of Peter Force, Esq., of Washington, D.C. These articles were signed, on the part of the British, by Lord Cornwallis, and by Thomas Symonds, the naval commander in York River; on the part of the allied armies, by Washington, Rochambeau, Barras, and De Gras.]JOHN MAGUIRE <jam939 wrote: Dear Jorge and list,I recently saw a PBS special and was reminded that the revolutionary warwent on for

several years after the Declaration of Independence/etc. wassigned. It seemed to indicate that the new nation was onlyconfirmed/recognized after Corwalis surrendered at Yorktown. If Washingtonhad lost/surrendered England/loyalists would have re-confirmed "ownership"and there would be no new nation. Has anyone looked at date of thissurrender? I would but my software won't go back that far. John